.TH BEADS 1 "2009 Dec 5" "Manual for beads"
.SH NAME
beads \- 2D gel electrophoresis spot detection

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B beads
[\fI--inverse --steps -p parameter file\fR]... \fI-i INPUT \fI-o OUTPUT
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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detect and quantify spots in INPUT gel image file.
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\fB\-i\fR
path to the gel image input file
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\fB\-o\fR
path to the output file
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\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-param\fR
path to the parameter file
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\fB\-\-inverse\fR
inverse pixel intensity in the source gel image, must be "true" or "false" ("true" by default)
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\fB\-\-steps\fR
save each image computed by beads at each step of the process into TIFF files. This option can be used to tune parameter file.
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.SH OUTPUT
beads produces several files format as output: xml, txt, jpg, tif and svg. To choose the output file format, just write the corresponding extension in the output filename OUTPUT
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.SH AUTHORS
beads was written by Michel Zivy <michel.zivy@moulon.inra.fr> and Olivier Langella <olivier.langella@moulon.inra.fr>.
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.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright CeCILL
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.SH SEE ALSO
The beads homepage :
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http://pappso.inra.fr/bioinfo/beads/index.php